Predators are carnivorous creatures, whether animals, monsters, or aliens, who hunt and kill prey for food. Examples of predators are bears, hyenas, big cats, birds of prey, wolves, foxes, sharks, snakes, crocodiles and dinosaurs.

Typically, predators in real life and fiction act out of instinct and a need to eat rather than genuine maliciousness; thus, they are almost always considered Amoral or Feral.

However, this category should never be mistaken with human predators, who are either Cannibals (if they, too, hunt others for food) or suffer from pedophilia (if they are predators of the sexual nature). This category is purely for creatures who have to eat other creatures in order to live, such as animalistic predators.

Since these villains kill to survive, they are rarely Pure Evil, but it's possible for them to be Pure Evil if they are cruel to their victims and they would torture them before killing them (e.g. Beldam, Dag and Pennywise). Even though Dag definitely needs food, considering how skinny he is, he acts like a serial killer and likes psychologically abusing his prey. There are also characters such as Scar who are literally animals that need to eat other animals to survive, yet the fact that they are predators doesn't contribute to what makes them heinous enough to be considered Pure Evil.